You can’t cram everything into Impromptus, you know, even if it sometimes looks that way. There are two items I left out of today’s column. And since I won’t be writing one for tomorrow, I thought I’d offer them (impose them?) here.

Like everyone else — everyone else with Republican blood — I was thrilled at Bob Turner’s win in New York. Ed Koch pushed this Republican candidacy from the beginning. He said it would serve as a nice rebuke of Obama, for “throwing Israel under the bus.”

The timing of this victory made me the tiniest bit queasy. Tell you why. It came directly after the crisis of the Israeli embassy in Cairo. And, reading between the lines of what Netanyahu said, I gather that the American president’s intervention saved the lives of those Israeli diplomats. Apparently, Obama said to the Egyptian government, “Get those goons out of there, let the Israelis leave, or else.”

Now, any American president would have done this. It would have been dog-bites-man. We would expect an American president to do this as much as we would expect him to eat soup with a spoon. But when Obama does it, it’s a little bit — I said a little bit — man-bites-dog.

Still, I’m delighted that Bob Turner has taken the seat of that statesman and chevalier Anthony Weiner. And isn’t there something wonderfully American about a political newcomer, a former advertising and TV exec, going to Congress at age 70? I love it.

Okay, Item 2: I have my reservations about Perry for President, as any person would at this stage. (I have no reservations about his governorship, which has been very solid and admirable. And I think Romney and the other candidates shouldn’t pick at it.) But he has done an excellent and encouraging thing by hiring Victoria Coates as his foreign-policy director. She has been working for Rumsfeld. And she is also an art historian. When I met her, she was teaching at the University of Pennsylvania.

In brief, Dr. Coates is a gem, a credit to any shop in which she works.